Speaking of reviews and reviewers, we wondered if we were merely imagining Michiko Kakutani’s absolutely relentless overuse of “limn” – it shows up in the first paragraph of her review of Falling Man – so we took a trip back into the archives to see just how bad it really is. This is as far as we got until boredom overtook us:

The Post Birthday World: “… Ms. Shriver’s instinctive knowledge of her heroine’s heart and mind and her ability to limn Irina’s very different relationships … ”

Theories of Everything: ” … her capacity to limn everything from the existential and Dada-esque …”

Collected Stories, Saul Bellow: ” … attempts to limn the last days of an alcoholic frontierswoman … “